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• A Kachin leader’s legacy lives on through his daughter
• Opium poppy farmers reject crop ban, war on drugs
• Three killed in construction site accident
• NLD insists it will choose Rakhine State chief minister
• Kachin activist convicted in Facebook defamation case
• Five cities better equipped to monitor earthquakes
• Police tackle unlicensed motorcycles and theft with new crackdown
• Conf : Religious leaders needed in peace process
• Sleeping children wounded in Shan State mortar attack
• Demands ramp up for fuller political prisoner release

A Kachin leader’s legacy lives on through his daughter Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST For much of the first 20 years of her life, Maran Ja Seng Hkawn was raised by her grandmothers in Kachin, Myanmar's northernmost state, without her parents or siblings by her side and under the scrutiny of military intelligence.

Opium poppy farmers reject crop ban, war on drugs Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Opium poppy farmers from Myanmar attending an international conference on "prohibited plants" have rejected a ban on growing their crops and urged an end to forced eradication.

Three killed in construction site accident Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Three workers, including a child, were killed and another three are still missing after a retaining wall under construction at a Yangon monastery collapsed yesterday.

NLD insists it will choose Rakhine State chief minister Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST The National League for Democracy insists it will appoint the chief minister and government for Rakhine despite protests by the Arakan National Party which won a majority of the state's elected seats in last November's elections.

Kachin activist convicted in Facebook defamation case Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Kachin humanitarian activist Patrick Kum Jaa Lee was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on January 22 for defaming the military commander-in-chief on Facebook.

Five cities better equipped to monitor earthquakes Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST As a country lodged on some of the most seismically active faults during what scientists suggest may be a particularly active period, Myanmar is boosting its ability to predict earthquakes. New digital seismographs will be set up in five cities across the country by the end of this month, according to an official from the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.

Police tackle unlicensed motorcycles and theft with new crackdown Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Police are cracking down on unlicensed motorbikes in Yangon Region hoping it will also reduce the number of street thefts. On the orders of the chief minister, police have seized more than 1100 illegal motorcycles in the past 40 days.

Conf : Religious leaders needed in peace process Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST President U Thein Sein attended this weekend's World Peace Buddhist Conference, organised by the deputy chair of the nationalist hardline group Ma Ba Tha.

Sleeping children wounded in Shan State mortar attack Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST Two children and two adults were wounded in their beds when suspected Tatmadaw mortar fire hit two houses in the northern Shan State town of Namhsan during fighting with the Ta-ang National Liberation Army, residents said yesterday.

Demands ramp up for fuller political prisoner release Posted: 24 Jan 2016 02:30 PM PST The outgoing government's last-ditch attempt last week to make good on pledges to release all political prisoners fell well short of the aim, according to international rights groups.

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